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Quick Tip: The Best Way to Run Internet Explorer on your Mac Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

Quick Tip: The Best Way to Run Internet Explorer on your Mac

While Mac users do have a handful of resources available, when viewing new web designs in Internet Explorer, the quickest solution is to use Wine, which can create a wrapper for the native PC Internet Explorer app! Even better, an app, called Wine Bottler makes adding the IE icon to your dock amazingly simple. I\'ll show you what to do in today\'s video quick tip!

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How to Create Blog Excerpts with PHP Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

How to Create Blog Excerpts with PHP

Ever visited a blog, and noticed that each posting\'s overview only contained a hundred characters or so, which is then followed by \'...\'? Ever wondered how to do that yourself? It\'s not quite as easy as you might think. What if character number 100 occurs in the middle of a word? Do you want to display half of a word on the page? Of course not. In this video tutorial, I\'ll show you how to compensate for this, as well as a host of other neat little things, like working with MySQL\'s LEFT() function, using PHP\'s strrpos, and substr, creating the beginning\'s of an actual blog, and more.

In category: PHP
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Quick Tip: Improve Site Performance in 3 Easy Steps Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

Quick Tip: Improve Site Performance in 3 Easy Steps

We all know we should do it, but how many of us do? I\'m talking about minifying JavaScript, CSS, and optimizing images to reduce load times. Today, I\'ll show you three quick and easy methods that all of us should implement to improve our site\'s performance.

In category: Javascript
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Quick Tip: 4 Ways to Auto-Refresh your Browser when Designing new Sites Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

Quick Tip: 4 Ways to Auto-Refresh your Browser when Designing new Sites

You know the drill: make some edits to your document, click save, switch over to your browser, refresh it, and then observe the changes. Wouldn\'t it be convenient if there was to auto-refresh your browser at a provided interval? That way, for instance, every three seconds, the browser will automatically refresh. Granted, this isn\'t too practical for heavy websites, however, when you\'re first beginning the design of a new website, it\'s quite convenient! I\'ll show you a couple of ways of achieving this.

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Start Using HTML5 WebSockets Today Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

Start Using HTML5 WebSockets Today

One of the cool new features of HTML5 is WebSockets, which let us talk to the server without using AJAX requests. In this tutorial, we\'ll review the process of running a WebSocket server in PHP, and then building a client to send and receive messages to it over the WebSocket protocol.

In category: HTML
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25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

25 HTML5 Features, Tips, and Techniques you Must Know

This industry moves fast - really fast! If you\'re not careful, you\'ll be left in its dust. So, if you\'re feeling a bit overwhelmed with the coming changes/updates in HTML5, use this as a primer of the things you must know.

In category: HTML
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How to Authenticate Users With Twitter OAuth Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

How to Authenticate Users With Twitter OAuth

Beginning August 16th, Twitter will no longer support the basic authentication protocol for its platform. That means the only way to authenticate users will be through a Twitter application. In this tutorial, I\'ll show you how to use Twitter as your one-click authentication system, just as we did with Facebook.

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Basic Skinning Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

Basic Skinning

This chapter explains how to style your site by creating custom skins.

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DotNetNuke 5.4 Cookbook Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

DotNetNuke 5.4 Cookbook

Create and customize your DotNetNuke website using Packts new book.

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Building Persistant Sticky Notes with Local Storage Add this tutorial to your favorites (2 points) leave a usefull comment on this tutorial (2 points)

Building Persistant Sticky Notes with Local Storage

HTML5 local storage is like cookies on steroids; it\'s incredibly simple to use and yet still so powerful. In this tutorial, I\'ll show you how to create \"sticky notes\" functionality, that allows your users to take persistent notes while browsing your site.

In category: Javascript
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